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RT @JustinWolfers: Cheap politics has real consequences. MT @AP: More than 1 in 10 US parents reject vaccine advice for young children. http://t.co/KyMjiy4k
News from The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) -- By age 6, children should have vaccinations against 14 diseases, in at least two dozen separate doses, the U.S. government advises. More than 1 in 10 parents reject that, refusin...
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Second Gail Collins column discussing Willow the cat - may be on its way to a place in her pantheon with Romney's dog http://j.mp/qAEG4U
Happy Tidings From the Hill - NYTimes.com
Good news, people! The government will be functioning in October. Congress paid the bills for seven more weeks. And did you hear? Willow the cat is back!
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Amazing reversal: "Obama’s strategists intend to use abortion, gay rights, the environ. & successes in fight against AQ" http://j.mp/ou62ct
Obama Campaign Borrows From Bush '04 Playbook - NYTimes.com
In key battlegrounds, the president's strategists intend to use abortion, gay rights, the environment and successes against Al Qaeda to counter economic attacks.
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22nd Gail Collins reference to Romney's dog since 8/07 (6% of all bylines) - when will her editors stage an intervention? http://j.mp/pk5LHN
The Curse of the Mitt - NYTimes.com
Mitt Romney has been knocking over one challenger after another in the G.O.P. presidential race. Is he responsible for the collapse of the Red Sox, too?
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Since 8/3/07, Collins has mentioned Romney's dog (22 references) almost as frequently as the VPOTUS (24 references to Biden by name)
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Bad pundit incentives RT @pwire: Clinton on Carville: "He likes to act crazy because it helps him get speaking gigs." http://t.co/8a52FZP5
Carville's Secret
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Gover...
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RT @MysteryPollster: Q: What predicts 2012 better, current horserace polling or Obama approval? A: Neither - still too early http://t.co/zzz39Arp
Obama's Approval Rating Is Underwater, But Don't Try To Predict 2012 Yet
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's job approval ratings have hit new lows over the past month, yet he continues to hold slight leads over Republican candidates in head-to-head polling. Of th...
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MT @rcantor [Obama jobs plan] looks like the underpants gnome theory of governance: 1. Speechify 2. ?? 3. Legislation! http://t.co/8dd6Gduk
Why Obama’s Legislative Strategy for Jobs Bill Doesn’t Involve Legislators
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the White House understands why its jobs bill has yet to see movement in the Senate, even though President Barack Obama is traveling the country to de...
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Surprise! "Obama has been...repeating a message for Congress...'Pass this bill' ...It still doesn’t seem to be working." http://j.mp/nBKR1z
Obama pushes on jobs bill while Congress goes slow
10 cities, 10 years, $20,000 a year How to visit a museum without going Supreme Court to examine federal power Perry hunting spot's racially charged name... Fairfax's Huntington wants to turn ba...
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RT @Atul_Gawande: The usually wise @michaelkinsley is badly wrong to argue Chris Christie's weight disqualifies him from Presidency http://t.co/GCnkd0V6
Can 'People of Weight' Become President?: Michael Kinsley Look, I’m sorry, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cannot be president: He is just too fat. Maybe, if he runs for president and we get to know him, we will overlook this awkward issue becau...
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RT @ezraklein: Chris Christie: Not too fat to be president. http://t.co/3cc3SXVJ
Chris Christie is not too fat to be president
There is a sudden rash of op-eds arguing that Chris Christie is too fat to be president. Over at Bloomberg View, my colleague Michael Kinsley makes the case. Here at The Washington Post, my coll...
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Kinsley's smart and everything, but isn't his "Christie too fat to be president" column just blatant pageview-whoring?
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How many hours will be wasted debating this inane point on cable? How many Maureen Dowd columns? I can feel our society becoming dumber.
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RT @jonathanchait: New post: Chris Christie and the obesity moral panic http://t.co/jyGq9xXm
Chris Christie Is Fat. So What?
In 2004, my friend Paul Campos wrote a book called The Obesity Myth. In it, he argued that claims about the health dangers of obesity by public authorities are overblown - that eating healthy fo...
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RT @nickconfessore: Been awhile since a male pol's appearance was scrutinized like Christie's. Routine for female pols, unfortunately. http://t.co/dxlI1mXB
Chris Christie’s big problem
Whether or not he lets himself be persuaded to run for president, Chris Christie needs to find some way to lose weight. Like everyone else, elected officials perform best when they are in optima...
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MT @prowag End of abstract is overblown, but contradicts Kinsley's pageview-whoring: http://t.co/Bqed49uD // See also http://t.co/0LkU5bpw
Obesity - Abstract of article: An Experimental Study of the Role of Weight Bias in Candidate Evaluation
Formerly known as Obesity Research, Obesity is the official journal of The Obesity Society. Available in print and online, Obesity is dedicated to increasing knowledge, fostering research, and p...
Do Voters Discriminate Against Obese Candidates? — The Monkey Cage
Jon Corzine seemed to hope so. A Wall Street Journal reporter thought the opposite, trolling message boards in 2008 for people who resented Obama for not being fat. Here is some evidence, courte...
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Conservatives still flailing about in search of the elusive Obama scandal I predicted http://t.co/lE7pc9rs http://t.co/mkB47n3y
Another White House scandal ... that is being denied by the parties on both sides
Apparently some right wing bloggers think they may have found their next big scandal: The White House may have pressured Ford Motor Company to yank a TV ad critical of Obama's rescue of the auto...
Fortune Refutes Right-Wing Media Claims That Obama Administration Gave Loan To Pelosi's Brother-In-Law | Media Matters for America
September 29, 2011 9:33 pm ET by Zachary Pleat Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight is reporting that the government has "given" a $737 million loan to Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's broth...
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Matthews explaining the Christie boomlet on Hardball: "He`s grouchy, grumpy...same mood as most of this country" Really? That's why?
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.@gregamarx of @CJR on Wash. Post's failure to explain how new GOP position led to disaster aid fight http://j.mp/oqpwPg
Norm Ornstein Gets Congress; WaPo Doesn’t
Result of Republican FEMA brinksmanship described as ‘almost accidental' Remember that New York Times story earlier this week on the (since-resolved) showdown over federal disaster aid-the one t...
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RT @PredictWise: Great graph by @EconRobe plotting the Intrade chances Obama re-election vs the Intrade chances of US recession in 2012 http://ow.ly/6Ig8S
The President’s Re-Election Chances and The Economy – Some Data from Intrade
It is conventional wisdom at this point that the President's re-election, at one point almost taken for granted, is suddenly in jeopardy because of the poor performance of the economy. In a very...
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More grim news for WH: GOP enthusiasm advantage comparable to 2000 (+27) http://j.mp/ndlw6F Dissatisfaction sky high too http://j.mp/r1RlGQ
Democrats Dispirited About Voting in 2012
PRINCETON, NJ -- In thinking about the 2012 presidential election, 45% of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual, while nearly as m...
Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Remains Near 32-Year Low
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the United States remains at 11% in September as it was in August, the lowest readings on this measure since December...
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Reminder from @jamesfallows: "'savior' candidates are never again as popular as they are the day before they announce" http://j.mp/qlKjDR
(Stop) Waiting for Chris Christie
Sign up to receive our three free newsletters Just after the streets of Tunisia and Egypt erupted, China saw a series of "Jasmine"… Everyone from President Obama to Ted Koppel is bemoaning a dec...
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Great TNR profile of Rick Perry - shows he is just as much of an ambitious, strategic politician as Romney http://j.mp/rbcVT3
The Permanent Candidate: What’s Driving Rick Perry? | The New Republic
The Tea Party movement had not yet fully impinged on the nation's consciousness when Rick Perry stepped to the podium outside Austin City Hall on April 15, 2009, to speak at a tax-day protest.
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MT @j_a_tucker: Are Obama's small donors really as "slow to return" as NYT suggested? @MonkeyCageBlog: http://t.co/lS4VBkdP
Obama’s Small Donors: Slow, or Perfectly Normal? — The Monkey Cage
We are pleased to welcome Adam Seth Levine of Cornell University with the following guest post in response to the recent NY Times story on Obama's small donors and his 2012 re-election race: The...
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John Sides of @monkeycageblog breaks down seemingly conflicting polls on Obama's handling of the economy & his jobs plan http://j.mp/r6E0A3
A Public Opinion Paradox: Voters Like Public Works, Payroll Tax Cuts, And Aid To States. But Tell Them That's The "Obama Jobs Bill" And They Say "meh." | The New Republic
If you haven't noticed already, the polling about President Obama's jobs proposal is very confusing. Ask people whether they like the plan as a whole, or how they rate Obama's handling of the ec...
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